Dear Editor,
It is amazing and sickening to note how the People’s National Party (PNP) can be so hypocritical.
Now imagine, Karl Blythe, a PNP presidential candidate, made certain observations after seeing two television interviews with the other presidential candidate and current party leader, Portia Simpson Miller, last week, and dared to utter his opinion.
A day later, he was man enough and withdrew the comments and apologised for having done so.
Immediately, Imani Duncan-Price, head of the PNP’s Communication Commission, “rubbished Blythe’s apology” and claimed the party was not accepting it. Then, her dad, the veteran dentist and long-standing Comrade D K Duncan, on a political platform in western Westmoreland, said the party was going to report him to the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), so “he can’t write another prescription”.
It’s been days since the MAJ has said that Dr Blythe was not in breach of any of its rules. Where are those vocal Duncans now? Will Imani ask her father to apologise to fellow Comrade Blythe? Will D K Duncan find the grace to apologise to another PNP elder whose livelihood he openly threatened, especially now that the party is so united all of a sudden?
Comrades and the world at large are keenly watching.
Bradley Dunkley
Negril
Westmoreland
It is amazing and sickening to note how the People’s National Party (PNP) can be so hypocritical.
Now imagine, Karl Blythe, a PNP presidential candidate, made certain observations after seeing two television interviews with the other presidential candidate and current party leader, Portia Simpson Miller, last week, and dared to utter his opinion.
A day later, he was man enough and withdrew the comments and apologised for having done so.
Immediately, Imani Duncan-Price, head of the PNP’s Communication Commission, “rubbished Blythe’s apology” and claimed the party was not accepting it. Then, her dad, the veteran dentist and long-standing Comrade D K Duncan, on a political platform in western Westmoreland, said the party was going to report him to the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ), so “he can’t write another prescription”.
It’s been days since the MAJ has said that Dr Blythe was not in breach of any of its rules. Where are those vocal Duncans now? Will Imani ask her father to apologise to fellow Comrade Blythe? Will D K Duncan find the grace to apologise to another PNP elder whose livelihood he openly threatened, especially now that the party is so united all of a sudden?
Comrades and the world at large are keenly watching.
Bradley Dunkley
Negril
Westmoreland